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    Hello everyone,

    I am trying to update a custom entity through a plug-in in CRM 4. Since it is a custom entity, I can't retrieve it with the ICrmService Retrieve method, so I tried using DynamicEntity with the help of this article:

    http://nishantrana.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/understanding-dynamicentity-in-microsoft-dynamic-crm/

    This is my code snippet which creates the DynamicEntity with an existing entity's guid (CustomEntityId), and sets a contact lookup field before update. Unfortunately it returns with "unable to process request", and I wasn't able to find the cause of it. Any help would be appreciated.

    DynamicEntity MyEntity = new DynamicEntity("new_myentity");
MyEntity.Properties.Add(new KeyProperty("new_myentityid", new Key(new Guid(CustomEntityId))));
MyEntity.Properties.Add(new LookupProperty("new_contact", new Lookup("contact", ContactId)));                            

_service.Update(MyEntity);

    Tuesday, March 26, 2013 2:16 PM

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    Sorry for wasting your time, I found my mistake. I had two similar entities, and set the dynamic entity name to the wrong one.

    Thanks for the help anyway.

    • Marked as answer by Adam Borsik Wednesday, March 27, 2013 9:25 AM
    Wednesday, March 27, 2013 9:25 AM

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    Hi,

    Can you give us a little more detail? How are you performing the request?

    Are you doing a service.Update(MyEntity) type of call?

    Have you tried using an UpdateRequest through service.Execute?

    If you haven't, try some thing like:

    TargetUpdateDynamic target = new TargetUpdateDynamic();
target.Entity = MyEntity;
UpdateRequest req = new UpdateRequest();
req.Target = target;
service.Execute(req);

    Does the same thing happens?

    Regards, João

    Tuesday, March 26, 2013 4:06 PM
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    Hi Joao,

    Thank you for your response. Yes, I used a service.Update call in the original code. I tried your code, unfortunately it resulted in the same error. If you have any other ideas, I'm open to suggestions.

    Wednesday, March 27, 2013 9:08 AM
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    Sorry for wasting your time, I found my mistake. I had two similar entities, and set the dynamic entity name to the wrong one.

    Thanks for the help anyway.

    • Marked as answer by Adam Borsik Wednesday, March 27, 2013 9:25 AM
    Wednesday, March 27, 2013 9:25 AM